On January 17, 2020, the data released by the National Bureau of statistics showed that the male population was 715.27 million and the female population was 684.78 million, and the sex ratio of the total population was 104.45 (100 for women).
Therefore, men are still 30.49 million more than women. This figure reached a staggering 40.08 million in 2006.
At the same time, this imbalance has been significantly improved compared with 2018: in 2018, the male population was 713.51 million, the female population was 681.87 million, and the male population was 31.64 million more than the female population.
In fact, in recent years, this number has been declining at the rate of almost one million people per year: in 2016, there were 33.59 million more men than women; In 2017, there were 32.66 million more men than women.
From the perspective of gender ratio, China has seen a decline in gender ratio for 14 consecutive years. The national sample survey of 1% population conducted in 2005 shows that the proportion of male and female population in China is 106.30:100. In 2018, the sex ratio of China's total population was 104.64. In 2019, this figure decreased to 104.45.
"There are more than 30 million men than women. This figure is indeed very high, but it is mainly caused by accumulation in the past." Cui Shuyi, director and researcher of the Institute of demography of Shandong Academy of Social Sciences, told the 21st Century Business Herald, "in fact, with the improvement of China's fertility policy, people's gender choice has also returned to rationality. In the future, the gender ratio will slowly decline and return to a reasonable range."
However, China's current gender problem, as well as the imbalance between regions. Research in some areas shows that the situation of 'leftover men' in rural China is very serious.
For example, the results of the third agricultural census in Hunan Province show that there are more men than women in the rural population, including 27.5513 million men, 2.9134 million more than women, and the gender ratio is 111.82. In all age groups, the gender ratio of men and women is higher than 100. Among them, 0-9 years old and 10-19 years old are the two most unbalanced age groups, and the gender ratio is as high as 124.96 and 125.90 respectively.